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Thursday, September 6, 2012

Latest novelties from the land of Vytautas

Till now
Vytautas Magnus University exceeds all my expectations. This is a wonderful, liberal university with fantastic lecturers! I have to get used to the academic
texts which all seem to have no end though.

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A Turkish
guest lecturer who would come over to give courses for some other students here
didn’t manage to get to Lithuania. The Turkish airline he would fly with
suddenly got bankrupt. Oops.

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During the
opening of the academic year a girl from Latvia hesitantly came towards me. ‘I
know you’ , she said. She had been watching the video’s I made for Riga In Your
Pocket. Nice!

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In Vilnius the vending machines have legs, They can talk too!

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The yellow public transport busses still drive
around with slightly visible Dutch Milner cheese commercials.

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The second
hand shop close to my university sells a huge range of Swedish and Dutch
children books.

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My roommate
and I discovered we have the same last name. ‘Bos’ means forest in Dutch and ‘Skov’
means forest in Danish.

Green
traffic light? Three double check and then sprint to the opposite of the street.
Lithuanians are crazy drivers.

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I’m still
amazed by the fact that you can buy one decent pizza and a coke for only 2 euro’s.

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It’s quite
common to spend an hour walking around through Maxima, a big supermarket. It’s
huge, I never know where to find what and I always come across hordes of
exchange students desperately hunting for their next meal (pasta).

To end with, Lithuania is a nice country but they do have some stupid toys here.